Safety guard-rail for railroads.



L. o. KING. SAFETY GUARD RAIL FOR RAILROADS.

APPLICATION FILED 00T. 16, 1913.

UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIoE.

LANG- C. KING, OF DENNIS, MISSISSIPPI.

SAFETY GUARD-RAIL FOR RAILROADS.

Linders.

To all whom z5 may concern Be it known that I, the undersigned, LANG C. KING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dennis, in the county of Tishomingo and State of Mississippi, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety Guard-Rails for Railroads; and 1 do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

r1`his invention relates to railroad appliances and more particularly to a guard rail to be secured to the main rail of a track at switches or bridges or other desirable points.

One of the principal objects of my invention is to provide a guard rail having a base portion adapted to underlie the base flange of the main rail and providing means for spiking the main rail on both sides of the flange thereof and also means for draining water or moisture from between the meeting faces or the main rail and the base portion of the guard rail, and another object is the provision of a filler or brace between the main and guard rails, and means for securing the filler to said rails.

llVith these and other objects in view, the invention resides in the construction, combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described and claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which like numerals of reference indicate like parts throughout the several figures, of which- Figure 1, represents a plan view of the guard rail. F ig. 2, represents a side elevational view thereof. Fig. 8, represents a perspective view of one end thereof, and Fig. f1, represents a vertical, transverse, sectional view through the guard rail showing the main rail secured thereon.

The guard rail 5 is outwardly curved at both ends as at 6, and is formed with a base 7 which is a continuation of the base flange on the guard rail, said base being formed along one edge of the base flange 8 of the guard rail. The base 7 is formed with a channel 9 on its upper face, said channel being of a width equal to the width of the base flange 10 of the main rail 11 and being of a depth equal to the thickness of said Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed, October 16, 1913.

Patented June 16, 1914. Serial No. 795,519.

base flange at its outer edges. The base 7 of the guard rail is provided with openings 12 arranged in staggered relation along each edge of channel 9, said openings adapted to receive spikes 13 whereby the main rail may be. spiked to the guard rail and to the ties 14. The bottom surface of the channel 9 is provided with a plurality of grooves 15 which are adapted to conduct water or moisture from between the meeting faces of the main rail and base.

A filler or brace 16 is provided, and comprises a strip of metal interposed between the webs of th-e main and guard rails, and abutting said webs, said strip having its undersurface beveled along one edge as at 17 to correspond to the incline of the upper face of the base flange 10 of the main rail, and having the opposite edge of its under face horizontal, as at 18 to abut against the face of the guard rail, and at intervals the strip is provided with recesses 1S), in its undersurface for receiving the heads of the spikes 13 occurring between the main and guard rails.

The web of the guard rail is provided at intervals with openings 2O and strip 1G is provided with transverse openings registering with openings 2O for receiving bolts 21 which also pass through the web of the main rail, whereby the main and guard rail and the ller or brace are secured together. The upper face of the base lying on the opposite side of the channel 9 from the guard rail is beveled as at 22, as is also the upper face of the base flange 8 of the guard rail so as to deflect water or snow from the guard rail.

Although I have described the preferred embodiment of my invention I may desire to make such changes in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts as do not depart from the spirit of the invention and the scope of the appended claim.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A guard rail comprising a body portion, a base portion having a channel formed therein for receiving the base of a main rail, said base portion being formed with openings along each edge of said channel for receiving spikes, said channel having grooves for conducting the moisture from nzune to this specifoation in the presence of between the base of sald mam m11 and sind two subserlblng Wltnesses.

base portion, the web of said guard rail provided with openings for receiving bolts whereby said main and. guard rails may be secured together.

In testimony whereof I have signed my LANG C. KNG.

Witnesses:

L. R. DAVIS, M, J. TIDWELL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained forve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. C. 

